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As the use of pyrethroid insecticides continues to increase in the United States, it is becoming increasingly important to monitor levels of the compounds in environmental waters, river and ocean
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Reduced costs and higher throughput have made next-generation sequencing (NGS) more accessible to users in such diverse fields as diagnostics, infectious disease, food safety and public health. NGS ... read more

Investigations for the determination of drugs in real samples, while gaining in importance, are limited by time and sample throughput. In response to this, the authors developed an automated solid-... read more

There is growing interest in the use of monodisperse particle-size distribution or PSD (here defined as having 10% RSD or less) to prepare modern HPLC columns because good correlation has been ... read more

The introduction of recent legislation, such as the EU Environmental Liabilities Directive 2004/35/EC, has led to a demand among analysts for more precise and robust methods for the identification of ... read more

Next-generation sequencing (NGS) is beginning to provide powerful insights into genetic mutations and molecular networks underlying disease for a broad set of genes. NGS technologies promise to ... read more

Gas chromatography (GC) is a powerful analytical tool, and it’s getting out of the lab and traveling millions of miles into space as part of the Rosetta mission, a project initiated by the European ... read more

High-throughput screening processes have become an essential tool in the pharmaceutical industry and clinical laboratory. High-throughput screening, or HTS, is used in drug discovery as well as in ... read more

Pittcon® is changing rapidly. After decades where separation science including GC/MS and LC/MS dominated the meeting, a report by Dr. Matt Wilkinson in this issue demonstrates that optical
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Sitting here watching March Madness reminded me of the new instrumentation presented at Pittcon® in Chicago. Not one, but two, mass spectrometer prod-
ucts were awarded a Pittcon Editors’ Award, ... read more

The field of polymer composites is a rapidly developing area of study in materials science. The addition of a variety of new component materials, such as carbon fibers, clay, carbon nanotubes, ... read more

With the ongoing globalization of the world’s food supply, the presence of potential contaminants in food is an ever-important and increasing global safety concern. Developing accurate and reliable ... read more

Macromolecular X-ray crystallography is an important and powerful technique in drug discovery. Studying the specific interactions of a particular drug with its protein target at the atomic level can ... read more

Various species of methacrylates are widely used in dentistry as filling materials. These consist mainly of an organic matrix, based on a monomer system of methacrylates and inorganic additives. read more

The precious metal palladium has been widely applied in the electronics, aerospace, chemical, metallurgy, automobile engines, and pharmaceutical industries due to its corrosion resistance, oxidation ... read more

The story of biofuels begins with biomass.
Simply stated, biomass is any plant or animal
material of recent origin, as opposed to plant or animal material that, over millennia,
has transformed ... read more

Charge transfer chemical ionization (CI) was among the ionization types studied decades ago by researchers investigating fundamental Characteristics of chemical ionization. However, the technique was ... read more